– present at 5.20 a.m. in the village of Rasskazowo, most likely due to the arrival of an unmanned aircraft, Biochim's company exploded and then a fire occurred. – Last Tuesday, the politician of the Tambov Oblast Maxim Jegorow confirmed the attack on the largest distillery in the region.
The head of the Tulsk region Dmitri Miliayev reported that during akin raids, “the premises suffered” of the spirit plants in the town of Jefriemov and in the village of Łuzkowski. These towns are 150 km apart, so it is hard to talk about a coincidence. All the more so, that the 4th mark of the synchronized attack became bets about everything called Ethanol Spirit, but already in the Vorone region. According to politician Alexey Gusi, 1 of the production halls was damaged.
Depriving Russians of vodka?
Why did Ukrainian command choose these objects as a mark – why, in order to deprive Russians of vodka, to deprive them of their fighting spirit? Strangely, specified ironic, based on negative associations comments appear even in Russian media. "This is PR action, first for Western use. To this day, there are people in the West who believe in the stereotype about Russians with vodka and balalaika,” says the opinion of “anonymous expert on the alcohol market”, published by the Mashnews portal.
However, a actual explanation can be found even in the authoritative profiles on the websites of the attacked objects themselves. For example, Biochim, mentioned in Tambów, is openly praised for the fact that "the company is presently engaged in production of a strategical state: it is carrying out a comprehensive processing of sugar-containing natural material (beet molasses) into different types of spirit".
"However unusual it may seem, spirits can apply not only to the food and medical industries but besides to the military industry. It can be utilized for the production of fuels, explosives and another substances of strategical importance," quoted Mashnews the analytical opinion of Ildar Sattarov, the creator of the digital platform hazard Management. – Under conditions of armed action, spirit may be an crucial component for the provision of certain weapons or ammunition. For a Russian scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, it is so apparent that this makes the spirits companies "logically attractive" targets of attacks.
Explosives
The Ukrainian side speaks straight about it.
– russian spirits plants are utilized not only for the production of spirits but besides for fuel and explosives for the military said Andriy Kowalenko, Head of the Centre for Disinformation in the safety and Defence Council.
As he pointed out, therefore, all 4 companies that were selected as targets are "military objects, even though masked as something else".
“It must be understood that spirits plants in Russia are not only Putinka, who is poisoned by the nation, but besides by spirit for the defence industry. First of all, it's an aerodynamic field, it's Russian aviation. For example, in MiG-31 aircraft, spirit is an crucial component of the fuel strategy – confirmed Ukrainian safety expert Paweł Łakijczuk. – Of course, the demolition that eliminates respective factories is not critical to industry, but if this approach is systemic, the Russian army will feel the effect.
There are presently more than 170 food ethanol companies in Russia. Stricte as spirit plants is defined as 40 of them. The 4 attacked last week "are large but do not have a dominant position on the market" – calms Russian media. Doesn't that mean, however, that the wheel of the dominant ones won't should be set now after the anti-aircraft defence battery? This Russian army would have felt it too.
